Shallow Dive Daf Yomi

How must a condition be structured to be binding? • When do a series of conditions present multiple options for validation, and when does a subsequent condition negate a previously offered option? • When is a condition understood to be effective retroactively? • Defining a vague grace period; how much time is meant by after the sabbatical year, after a year, after Shabbos, or after the festival?

Unconventional Talmudic remedies

Concessions that allow risk taking for pure tithes to those making a living • Guidelines of interfaith peace • Agencies to deliver and receive a bill of divorce

Prime yourself for growth • 7 things hidden from Man • Aggressive risk taking •

The requirements of a valid divorce: What are the minimum methods of fulfilling the requisite that the woman be sent away without returning • Restoration and restitution of theft • Rabbinic response to Kohanim on strike • The limits of Rabbinic jurisdiction • The Campaign of Titus and the varying prices of Jewish blood • Healthy fear • Unhealthy tolerance

Our abilities to grasp reality are limited so risks can never be fully eliminated

Who brings the first fruits, and who makes the appurtenant declaration? • The halachic forest cannot be lost to accommodate the technicalities of an halachic tree

Taking appropriate risks is necessary to succeed • Living in accordance with God's commands is the ultimate imperative; leave results and consequences to Him • By following the Lubavitcher Rebbe's advice, Ariel Sharon was spared from boarding a plane that was hijacked

For Tikkun Olam, the court requires a creditor with a lien on a slave who was subsequently freed by his master to additionally free him as "shidduch insurance" for his children • The master who frees this slave must compensate the lien-holder for impairing the debt • When are small sins warranted to prevent great sins? • When will the court require one to sin? • Is there a mitzvah in participating in a Minyan? • The Magen Avraham is puzzled by the Ran; if self-interest motivates the emancipation, how is freeing a slave for a Minyan sinful?

Does voting matter? • As a rain cloud showers the earth, be generous with your blessings • Is anything random?